this study seeks to investigate the impact of job characteristics on counterproductive work behaviour (cwb).  three forms of cwb are identified: interpersonal cwb, production cwb, and property cwb.  the regression analysis carried out on a sample of 355 employees showed mixed results. job significant demonstrated a significant and negative relationship with production cwb. the relationship betw...

This paper re-examines gender wage differences, taking into account not only worker characteristics but also job characteristics. Consideration of a wide set of “job quality” indicators can explain a fraction of the wage gap that would otherwise be attributed to pure wage discrimination. In any case, the fraction of the wage gap that remains associated to differential rewards for identical fact...

BACKGROUND The aim of the work presented was to assess job satisfaction of a number of nurses from different departments working in public hospitals in Italy. The assessment was carried out through the combined use of questionnaires, which measured different aspects of job satisfaction, such as coping abilities, stress level and optimism/pessimism. The literature supports the fact that nurses' ...

background: few studies have examined the relationship between perceived responsibilities by workers and job characteristics and experiences of stress. objective: to examine the relationship between job stress and work responsibilities and job characteristics. methods: we analyzed data from 2737 adults who were labor force participants in the province of alberta, canada. a logistic regression m...

staff job satisfaction is very important for assessments leading to organizational devel-opment. job satisfaction is a general attitude of workers towards with their job and it de-pends on the sum of all factors in organizational relations. the correlates of organiza-tional leadership style such as process of leadership, motivating factors, communication, process of decision making, and charact...

Finding ways to retain nurse anesthetists in the profession to meet the increasing demands of the healthcare system is of paramount importance. The present study investigates the relationship between work climate and job satisfaction among Dutch nurse anesthetists. A questionnaire was distributed to Dutch nurse anesthetists to assess their perceptions of their work climates, and their levels of...

Job Preferences as Revealed by Employee Initiated Job Changes Many previous studies try to discover job preferences by directly asking individuals. Since it is not sure, whether answers to these surveys are relevant for actual behaviour, this empirical examination offers a new approach based on representative German data. Employees who quit their job and find a new one, compare the two jobs wit...

The construct called “flow,” proposed by Csikszentmihalyi (1975, 1990), represents a milestone in the field of positive psychology. The present study aimed to analyze the role of flow as a critical psychological state in work redesign interventions in order to enhance job satisfaction. Specifically, two hypotheses were tested: (1) to investigate the relationships between the core job characteri...

Agile software-development advocates claim that an important value proposition of agile methods is that they make people more motivated and satisfied with their jobs. While several studies present anecdotal evidence that agile methods increase motivation and satisfaction, research has not theoretically explained or empirically examined how agile development practices relate to team members’ fee...